St. Columba's Church of Scotland, Dunfermline : A century of congregational history
Dryburgh, G. M., Rev1934
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This is an account, full of entertaining anecdotes, of the Free Church and its ministers in Dunfermline from the Disruption of 1843 to 1929. It tells how people who left the established church at Dunfermline Abbey, bought the Auld Licht Kirk in Canmore Street, replacing it with the Free Abbey Kirk building in 1844. Costing £6,000 to build, a further replacement, designed by Messrs. Campbell, Douglas and Sellars of Glasgow opened in 1884 and it is this building which was re-named St Columba's Church of Scotland in 1929, following re-unification of free churches with the Church of Scotland.
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Dunfermline : "Press" Office, 1934
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4p. ; 22 cm.
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2893
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The right of a wealthy patron to install a minister of his choice into a parish, became a point of contention between those who held that this infringed the spiritual independence of the church, and those who regarded it as a matter of property under the state's jurisdiction. This was the main issue which lead to the Disruption of 1843, when 121 ministers left the established Church to form the Free Church of Scotland.
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D/ECC
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English
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Free Abbey Kirk, Canmore Street -- Dunfermline (Scotland) -- HistoryFree Abbey Kirk, Canmore Street zDunfermline (Scotland) -- MinistersSt. Columba's Church of Scotland, Canmore Street -- Dunfermline (Scotland) -- HistorySt. Columba's Church of Scotland, Canmore Street -- Dunfermline (Scotland) -- MinistersChurch history -- Scotland -- DunfermlineDunfermline (Scotland) -- HistoryFife (Scotland) -- History
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3434169